INDEX 



r, coming forth in winter, 4, 

 205 ; singular colouring of, 

 269 



Badger, strange action of a, 249 

 Bibliotheca Cornubiensis, 187 

 Birds, a memory of, 1 1 ; feeding 



the, at St. Ives, 14; wintering 



in West Cornwall, 89-101 ; 



flying from the frost, 210; 



cruelties practised on, 212-14; 



crippled, 114, 217; visitation 



of, 222 ; effect of great frost 



on, 226 

 Blackbird, 92, 225 ; distress of, on 



washing-day, 270 

 Blackthorn, 42 

 Bolerium. See Land's End 

 Books on Cornwall, 55-7, 130, 



136-7, 308 

 Borde, Andrew, on Cornish 



speech, 107 

 Borlase, William, on the Cornish 



seal, 254-5 

 Bottrell, William, Stories find 



Folklore of West Cornwall, 1 96 

 Bracken, colour of dead, 206 

 Brett, the marine artist, story of, 



170 



Browning, Dramatic Idylls, 82 

 Bunting. See Corn Bunting and 



Yellowhammer 



Burgomaster, Glaucous gull, 23 

 Bush-beating, 214 

 Buttercup, beauty of the, 288 



Calderon's Life's a Dream, 66 



Campbell, Rev, R. J., on drunken- 

 ness, 127 



Cape Cornwall, 43, 52 



Carew, Richard, on Cornish 

 farmers, 32 ; on cliff foxes, 

 34; on tin-mining, 133; his 

 book praised, 135-6, 187 



Thomas, lyrist, a Cornishman, 

 187 



Carter, Mr. R. H., story of a 

 badger told by, 249 



Cassiterides (Scilly Islands), 305 



Castle-an-Dinas, 273 



Chaffinch, as a rare bird, 246 



Chapel Cam Brea, 54 



Charlock, an admirer of, 280 



Chiffchaff, return and abundance 

 of the, 269 



Children in Cornwall, love of, 

 7 ; lost, 8 ; power of, 1 1 8-20 



Collins, Wilkie, on the Land's 

 . End, 54 



Colt's-foot, sweet-scented, 276-9 



Columbine, wild, 283 



Conger eel, fight with seal, 252 



Connemara, Cornwall's, 29 



Corn bunting, winter singing of, 

 3,^268 



Cornish speech, 104 



Courtney, Lord, on West Corn- 

 wall, 194 



Courthope, Paradise of Birds, 267 



Cows, Cornish breed, 23, 43 ; in 

 Penzance market, 1224 



Cruelty, charge of, 1446 ; prac- 

 tised on birds, 212-14 





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